Pith Number

pith:7BRWFEEJ

pith:2026:7BRWFEEJ4KVEBMZNRZLOQAH574

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Vibe Coding Ate My Homework: An evaluation of AI approaches to greenfield software engineering and programming

Callum Barbour

arxiv:2606.18293 v1 · 2026-06-15 · cs.SE · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7BRWFEEJ4KVEBMZNRZLOQAH574}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-19T16:10:57.117285Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f863629089e2aa40b32d8e56e800fdff04ca55af540cf2d88a9c88c49b083529

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.18293 · arxiv_version: 2606.18293v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.18293 · pith_short_12: 7BRWFEEJ4KVE · pith_short_16: 7BRWFEEJ4KVEBMZN · pith_short_8: 7BRWFEEJ

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7BRWFEEJ4KVEBMZNRZLOQAH574 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: f863629089e2aa40b32d8e56e800fdff04ca55af540cf2d88a9c88c49b083529

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "11b3ab1fb47031ff01be9c087086ddcabc4b1884ff9076e7faea083ddcb82607",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-15T18:49:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cb1b5c8b9d817e76b3d8872fb0a84f4a21003b5a9c3b6a0781859bd0d3033ab7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.18293",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}